There are already some hacks to support them but I decided to take another approach. Since the comment loop was changed drastically, those hacks had to… well, hack away in order to keep backward compatibility with Sandbox-based themes. Instead, I decided to embrace the new comment loop in WP (which is simple and doesn’t allow much customization without resorting to the hackish callback, but it generates code very close to what Sandbox does).

If you like the idea, feel free to download my customization (just overwrite the comments.php and header.php in Sandbox). You’ll probably have to tweak your previous themes a little, though.

Tip: if you want do get rid of the “says:” in the comments (e.g. “Alice says:”), put this in your stylesheet:

.says { display: none; }

If you want to change the avatar size, change the following line in comments.php

to

(change 40 to whichever size you want)

…and I’ve not activated it in this blog for now, since it barely gets comments. Sorry, no live preview